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==Service==
 
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Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 801}}
 
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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* {{LCommRN}} [[Nigel K. W. Barttelot]], 7 March, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 339.</ref>
 
* {{LCommRN}} [[Nigel K. W. Barttelot]], 7 March, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 339.</ref>
 
* {{LCommRN}} [[Reginald B. C. Hutchinson]], 30 August, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915).  p. 348.</ref>
 
* {{LCommRN}} [[Reginald B. C. Hutchinson]], 30 August, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915).  p. 348.</ref>
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* {{LCommRN}} [[Philip W. S. King]], in command at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 47}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 16:35, 14 October 2013

H.M.S. Liberty (1913)
Pendant Number: H.81 (1914)
H.57 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: J. S. White[2]
Launched: 15 Sep, 1913[3]
Sold: Nov, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Liberty was one of 22 destroyers of the Laforey class.

Service

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated as one of six Harwich Force destroyers screening the Second Battle Cruiser Squadron.[5]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.[6]

Habitability

In July 1914, it was decided not to supply portable fans to ventilate the Stokers' Mess Deck and the Chief and Petty Officers' Mess Deck.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 10.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 801.
  7. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 79 of 3 July 1914.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 339.
  9. The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 348.
  10. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 47.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
<– Acasta Class Destroyers (UK) "M" Class –>